This meme is powerful and i didnt fully understand why until now. And i think a lot of people miss the point.
The "videogame industry", the culturally and economically dominant subset of gamemakers, struggles to define "good games" as something only they can produce. Long, beautiful, and technologically advanced, made over years by a large amount of highly skilled people.
As players, accepting this dominate ideology limits what we can enjoy in the world of games.
As gamemakers, who aren't creative directors of a large studio, accepting this means we really fucked up. We internalized our own exclusion from the production of culture. Attempting to make games that approach these values in other contexts hurts. Can one person make a four plus hour video game? yes but over how many years???
That's why we must redefine what makes a game "good", deconstructing the fuck out of it. Don't hate your own games because they dont live up to standards created to hurt you.
If we can learn a perspective of games that loves us back, then we can play more weird cool shit and not feel terrible about our marvelous lil guys.
